The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-10-29


CRAFTY his appetite for huekleberries
Having had a suficiencv of the fruit.
he calmly gave himselfup to the author.
tiles and returned to Jail.
Five miles from Jefferson. Ga. lives
a young farmer named Jasper Porter.
He WAS engaged to marry Miss Ward.
in the upper part OF the county. the
following week. He had an appoint
ment TO spend Sunday with her. when
the marriage wouid be talked over.
While on his way to her residence he
had to pass Walnut church, which was
full. On entering he found it was "a
funeral and that the people were taking
a last look at the corpse. He went up
also, and the face which he saw was that
of Miss Ward, the lady whom he was
going to see and to whom he was en-
gaged.
In the old days of primitive notions
at Bar Harbor the cottagcrS, who had
their meals at the hotels and who had
cottages outside, were called .'mealers."
Some of those who lived at too remote a
distance TO walk were sent for in a sort
of vehicle which was more substantial
than stylish, and these were called ''haul-
ell mcalers." But now, alas what a
change has come over the dream of this
fashionable summer city. One must
say instead: Il am in lodgings and have
table d'hote at an hotel just as an Eng
lishman says at Brighton or the Isle of
Wight.
An OgdcnSburg newspaper says that
some of the citizeIs of the Fourth ward
of that town have for some time been
annoyed by their cows coming home at
night without the usual amount of milk.
They watched their cows in hopes of
discovering the offender, and they were
successful, for they saw a strange dog
approach one of the cows and rub mp
against her legs. The COW put her foot
back, when the dog sat upon his haunch-
es and sucked her dry. He was as fat
as O seal from the milk he had been tax
ing.
Mrs. d. G.. CRoLY ("Jenny June'o
has been made president of Mrs, r. P.
Newby's Women's Endowment Cattle
Company. The company has tised its
certificate of incorporation III New Jer-
sey, and has capital stock of 81 ,5O0,-
600, divided into 5000 shares of 500
each. The company has control of
nearly two million ares of fine grazing
land in New Mexico, or which there are
now 6,000 head of cattle. The stock is
to be placed with womoa as an endoE-
ment for their children.
A MAD dog attacked o woman ncar
Louisville, and " iiiiam Eichen q Young
newly landed-Gcrman, employed by the
husband. went to her rescue and strang-
led the brute, but not before his hands
and arms had been badly bitten. Az
soon as the man learned that the dog
was mad, and that Eichen might have.
the hydrophohia, he promptly discharS-
ed the young man who rad saved his.
wiie's life, and the poor follow, without
money or friends, WAS admitted to the
..usr.ta,.
TIE 81 los. settlers of tirrnceville, In
,;ian Territory. were recently surprised
" ,ha .,lpr,aran,.c IT big Mary" IN
'riicu sr,iaw. Who. in the White Bird
'ri,t :r', -.:n> ago. bore an active part.
She vas very diligent IN cutting tho
Threats of wounded soldiers who fell in
that action. She accompanied the hos
tiles all throughout the var, and was
sent to Indian Territory with the other
Indians, but finally returned with ,jC-
scph's band to the Colville reservation.
JOHN J. REILLY, aged -, foreman in
the scratch shop of an Albany sto~e
foundry, disappeared on Saturday morn
ing. On Monday his body was found
in an oven for baking ladies'. 1t is pE7'-
| sumpd that he went in there and ieil
/ asleep. A fire was started on Saturday
morning. and the door Of the oven ras
then locked, his presence not being no.
ticcd. He was baked for forty hours.